Delivery workers “very distressed” over recommendation Risk of fire on public transit vehicles means the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) will consider prohibiting lithium battery electric scooters on TTC vehicles during the winter months at its Tuesday, October 29 meeting. Gig
Read More
Surge pricing sneaking into more consumer purchases Would you pay more for an Uber if your phone battery was at 5 per cent power and you feared being stranded when it died? Would you cough up more money for concert
Read More
Theft of workers’ tips being acknowledged? Following Ontario’s lead, the government of British Colombia is changing the definition of the term “minimum wage.” On June 12, BC released proposed legislation which, like Ontario’s law, divides a worker’s time into “engaged
Read Morefrom the Gig Workers’ United “X” feed What do we think of the new platform gig work regulations in BC? It’s great the provincial government recognizes that this is an unsustainable situation but we are disappointed that the legislation doesn’t
Read More
The National Employment Law Project (NELP) has published its April 2024 report, focused on the tactics used by rideshare and delivery companies to move in to new jurisdictions and manipulate communities and workers. “Disrupting Democracy: How app corporations buy, bully,
Read More
On Monday, January 29, 2024, at approximately 7 p.m., police received a report of a Personal Injury collision involving a pedestrian in an alleyway in the Gerrard Street East and Broadview Avenue area. Early media reports claimed that a Beck Taxi fare
Read More
“Banning unvaccinated workers from the workplace after June 2022 did nothing fortheir safety and contributed nothing to the safety of the others working there” Purolator employees and Owner/Operators should be compensated for the damages they suffered when they were put
Read More
Purolator “unjustly terminated employment” Road Warrior News has obtained two memos from Teamsters Local Union Number 31, the British Columbia local which spearheaded the third successful grievance against Purolator Inc. Purolator, which is owned 91 per cent by the federal
Read More
💥“WE’VE CHANGED THE GAME”: TEAMSTERS WIN HISTORIC UPS CONTRACT💥 Today, the #Teamsters reached the most historic tentative agreement for workers in the history of @UPS, protecting and rewarding more than 340,000 UPS Teamsters nationwide. #1u pic.twitter.com/4Ap3j4XUTD — Teamsters (@Teamsters) July
Read More